"It's interesting actually, because I'm playing Same Love, and they're going through right now trying to legalise same-sex marriage in Australia," he told LA radio station Power 106.

"So I'm getting a lot of tweets from angry old white dudes in Australia who I think there was a petition today to ban me from playing it.

"So it's interesting times in Australia. Imma go harder."

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has also questioned the choice of Macklemore, suggesting the NRL should have given top billing at its Grand Final to a local artist.

"We have so many other great artists in this country that we could actually put up there. Why do we bring in someone from overseas and a lot of his songs I have heard, you would not want to play them because of the lyrics?"